Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 30 10:14:33 EDT 2004 | davef
USING CONDUCTIVE EPOXY: Epoxies do not bond well to tin or tin alloy surfaces. * For components: a silver-palladium or gold end termination is recommended. * For substrates: gold over nickel should work well. Remember epoxy is not hermetic, and ox
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 10 12:17:17 EST 2006 | Rob
Hi, The ROHS compliant parts are usually Matte Tin on the outer terminal plating. There are also 2 further types of metal on the average chip cap - the undercoat metal of the outer electrode & the inner electrode. These are usually the same & are
Electronics Forum | Thu Jun 29 02:16:07 EDT 2006 | AR
We are experiencing some difficulties with reflow soldering a 1210-sized MOV with silver/palladium finish. The PCB finish is SAC. When inspecting the board after reflow it seems that nearly all solder is gone both from the pads and the component term
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 02 10:24:35 EDT 2004 | dj_jago
Greetings from the UK: I have been quite fortunate to lead (no pun intended) our company towards lead free sooner rater than later. One of our customers produces a product which is refurbushed every 6 months or so and sent back into the market. A
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 09 21:20:26 EDT 1998 | Simon Ting
hi, 1206 capacitor with silver/palladium termination is mounted onto a ceramics substrates. Bonding is achieved through conductive epoxy. We discovered that the epoxy cracked and this caused missing capacitor. We had tried different grade of epoxy,
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 10 09:47:15 EDT 1998 | Earl Moon
| hi, | 1206 capacitor with silver/palladium termination is mounted onto a ceramics substrates. Bonding is achieved through conductive epoxy. | We discovered that the epoxy cracked and this caused missing capacitor. We had tried different grade of e
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 24 10:20:15 EDT 1999 | Bob Willis
PCB Solder Finishes Survey Questions 1999 Results for the 1996-7 survey are located at www.smartgroup.org As a number of SMART people have requested an update on the solder finishes survey SMART Group have run in the past here is your opportunity t
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 24 14:49:58 EDT 2004 | jamyboy
Hi, I am trying to assemble a LTCC component > with Pd/Ag surface finish on to Sn/Pb/Ag solder > and Sn/Ag/Cu solder. I am passing it through a > reflow. I have observed poor wettability at the > solder-pad joint. Does anyone have information
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 18 13:48:37 EDT 1999 | Earl Moon
| We currently use HASL on all of our boards and I would like to move to something else. I have sampled some boards with Entek OSP and I loved it, the problem is we have plated mounting holes on just about every board we make. Does anyone have info
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 18:02:31 EDT 1999 | JohnW
Bryan, 0402's tombstonning isn't that uncommon and usually the 1st reaction is alway's the pad size aint right. If you've followed the IPC guidline's normally you should be fine but I'd double check the component supplier's spec's as well. brian's p